DOGS AND HUMAN SPEECH
What are the limits to a dog’s understanding of human speech? A wellframed sheep-dog can grasp and obey a complicated command, but it is difficult, to believe that any dog can follow a conversation. “The assumption that dogs do understand, writes a correspondent. ‘unquestionably furnishes an easy explanation of many strange coincidences. My wife had a spaniel, her constant companion. In pre-war days, when she was sketching on a. hot day, she, said to him, “Rover, I am so thirsty ; I wish I had a penny to get some ginger-beer.’ Ihe dog began to scratch at the edge of the road, and threw out a coin. No doubt he had buried it at the spot, and perhaps he had a knowledge of the coinage.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 20 January 1931, Page 9
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